Sentence examples for hackneyed representations from inspiring English sources

A Wolf at the Door is a thriller about a woman who kidnaps the daughter of her married ex-lover: set in the suburbs of Rio, away from the spectacular beaches or crime-ridden favelas commonly depicted in films, it steers clear of hackneyed representations of Brazil.

"So the old, tired and hackneyed representation of us as a bunch of rogue operatives, with everything dark and gloomy and sensational, that doesn't wash any more".

Dodgeball (2004) Sport: dodgeball Participants must band together a plucky group of geeks, waistoids and sporting ingénues, challenge an opposing team who collectively embody a hackneyed representation of athletic prowess, and ensure the odds are solidly stacked against them, before triumphing thanks to little guy pluck and vim.

A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them".

His bar-room "get real" manner seemed hackneyed.

Nothing is hackneyed or maudlin, just straight.

Mr. Caro's writing is occasionally hackneyed.

Your themes are hackneyed, your style imitative.

And sometimes, he's downright hackneyed.

And yet it never feels hackneyed.

A hackneyed, worn-out idea isn't hackneyed and worn out to them.